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How popular is the name Alyssa?
Births per year, rank history and how many Alyssas are alive today.
Alyssa (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 325th in 2025 with 133 babies given the name. This spelling of the name peaked in 2004, when 360 babies were given the name, the 144th most popular that year. It has declined since 2004; the 2025 figure is roughly 37% of its peak. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 6,700 babies have been named Alyssa in England and Wales since 1996. Alyssa is one spelling of a name also recorded as Alissa and Elyssa; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Alyssa you are most likely to meet is around 15 years old. Half of all Alyssas born in England and Wales are between 9 and 21, and there are at least 8,600 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 2.7% chance that at least one of them will be called Alyssa.
How many babies are named Alyssa each year?
Includes all spellings: Alyssa, Alissa, Elyssa. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Alyssa spelling rank?
Where does the Alissa spelling rank?
Where does the Elyssa spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Alyssa most popular?
Alyssa peaked in 2012, when 426 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Alyssa?
At least 8,600 people named Alyssa in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Alyssa?
Most living Alyssas are between 9 and 21; the most common age is about 15.
Is Alyssa becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 2012 peak.